Lockheed Martin reports strong earnings
Posted: Wed, Jul 26 7:43 AM ET (1143 GMT)
Lockheed Martin's space unit reported Tuesday a significant increase in sales and profits in the last quarter. The Space Systems unit of the company...

Atlantis rolled into VAB
Posted: Tue, Jul 25 10:56 AM ET (1456 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis was transferred to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in prepapration for a rollout to the pad for...

Space Adventures to offer spacewalks to tourists
Posted: Sat, Jul 22 12:09 PM ET (1609 GMT)
Space tourists traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) will now have the option of performing a spacewalk while at the station, space tourism operator...

Orbital reports increased revenue, profits
Posted: Sat, Jul 22 12:02 PM ET (1602 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation reported increased revenues and income in its fiscal second quarter on Thursday, thanks primarily to its satellite manufacturing division. The company reported...

Report: CEV to be named Project Orion
Posted: Fri, Jul 21 10:08 AM ET (1408 GMT)
NASA plans to name the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), the manned spacecraft that will be used to send astronauts to Earth orbit and the Moon...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Fri, Jul 21 10:00 AM ET (1400 GMT)
A Molniya rocket launched a Russian military satellite early Friday. The Molniya-M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 12:...

MetOp launch postponed indefinitely
Posted: Thu, Jul 20 10:26 AM ET (1426 GMT)
After three consecutive scrubs, the launch of Europe's first polar-orbiting weather satellite has been delayed until further notice, possibly as long as two...

Globalstar files for IPO
Posted: Thu, Jul 20 10:04 AM ET (1404 GMT)
Mobile satellite communications company Globalstar, which went through bankruptcy protection earlier this decade, has announced plans to perform an initial public offering of stock. Globalstar...

Falcon 1 loss blamed on fuel leak
Posted: Wed, Jul 19 7:13 AM ET (1113 GMT)
A review board has concluded that the failed inaugural launch of the Falcon 1 earlier this year was caused by a fuel leak. The Falcon...

European weather satellite launch delayed
Posted: Mon, Jul 17 8:59 PM ET (0059 GMT)
The launch of a European weather satellite on a Russian rocket was postponed Monday at least 24 hours because of a problem with the rocket....